LG GW990 Is First Announced 'Meego' Phone

A day after Intel and Nokia announced they were merging their Maemo and Moblin Linux platforms to become MeeGo, a presenter at LG's press breakfast on Wednesday confirmed that the LG GW990, the first phone based on Intel's Moorestown platform, will "transition" to MeeGo.

Nokia may talk the talk, but LG walks the walk. A day after Intel and Nokia announced they were merging their Maemo and Moblin Linux platforms to become MeeGo, a presenter at LG's press breakfast on Wednesday confirmed that the LG GW990, the first phone based on Intel's Moorestown platform, will "transition" to MeeGo.

The presenter's English was extremely limited, so it was hard to get more details. But the GW990 currently runs on Moblin, so it makes sense that it would become one of the first MeeGo phones.

Whether it's actually first depends on several things, like whether Nokia transitions their N900 Maemo device over to MeeGo, and what all the mysterious other gadgets that Intel and Nokia were promising turn out to be. The GW990 is scheduled to come out in Korea during the second half of this year, but LG has no plans to bring it to the U.S.

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